The 1960 earthquake in Chile was the largest earthquake ever recorded by seismographs. It was a 9.5 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile. The Nazca Plate, an oceanic plate, is subducting beneath the North American Plate, a continental plate.960 Chile Earthquake The 1960 Chile earthquake was a magnitude 9.5 the largest earthquake ever recorded! What Causes Earthquakes. Find out what causes earthquakes and other fascinating facts about when our planet shakes, rattles, and rolls.
In terms of large animals, the animal that kills the most people in Africa is the hippopotamus because they are very territorial and very physically powerful. In terms of total deaths related to animals, mosquitoes cause malaria and that's the leading cause in death in Africa. 17 people found this useful.
A German hunter (r.) poses with his Zimbabwe hunting guide after he killed an elephant, the largest animal killed in Africa in 30 years. (Facebook) A European hunter slaughtered one of Zimbabwe's biggest elephants and then smugly posed next to his record-setting kill â just after poachers poisoned another 40 animals with cyanide. Experts believe that the elephant shot dead on Oct. 8 near Zimbabwe's southern Gonarezhou National Park is the largest killed in Africa in at least 30 years.